What is Thorium ? what's its important to India?
The Fast Breeder Reactor, which is used to generate the power in the atomic power plant, uses a mixture of Plutonium and Uranium as fuel. Now India is taking a big leap in building the Thorium based reactor.
The Indira Gandhi Centre For Atomic Research (IGCAR) , Kalpakkam, is in process of building a Thorium based 500 MW Fast Breeder Reactor by 2013. No doubt this will be game changer in energy space. Further, Thorium is rated as a clean fuel
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